DEAD STARS
by Paz
Marquez Benitez
Dead Star by Paz Marquez Benitez is the very first published Philippine Short Story in English. It was written in 1925 and was published in the Philippine Herald on the same year. How can we simply describe the story: It is verbose, very flowery--a great example of what a literary piece written on the period of imitation in Philippine Literature looks like. The theme is very simple. It is about love. The title Dead Star speaks of the whole story itself. A star, like love, when it is new and young is very warm, very bright but as time goes by, love, like a star, can grow dim, distant, and cold.
